What an OCID is
An OCID is the Open Contracting ID of one procurement process. Notices that belong to the same process share it. It is not a payment reference and it is not a contract number.
In this holding, an OCID that begins ocds-h6vhtk is a Find a Tender process and is labelled a Procurement Act 2023 notice. An OCID that begins ocds-b5fd17 is a Contracts Finder process and is labelled a Public Contracts Regulations 2015 notice.
Open Contracting Partnership, Open Contracting Data Standard release schema, OCID. https://standard.open-contracting.org/latest/en/schema/identifiers/
Find a Tender, Notice types and sequences, https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Home/NoticeTypes, read on 8 October 2026. This build did not request that page on 9 November 2026. The recorded list has no UK8.